On May 4th I attended a Motorcross meet near Banbury in Oxfordshire. The two day event was part of my studying for a sports module I am currently completing. The event was extremely well marshalled and the organisers did a really good job as making as many people feel as welcome as possible. I arrived shortly before 0900 hours and took a good hour to have a look around the track and see the best places that I thought would provide the best photo opportunities to me.
I decided the best way was to get away from the crowds. so I went to the areas of the track that were virtually void of other people, except Marshalls. With the Nikon D3 and a Nikon 80mm - 400 f4.5 at the ready I started to shoot.
I shot about one thousand images over the weekend and after the lightroom workflow got rid of 600 of them. I used 2 8gb Lexa UDMA 8gb 300x CF cards and two 4gb versions, all shot in raw.
I kept the apertures as near to the largest as I could and now and again shot at f7.1, depending on the DOF I wanted. To help achieve this I ramped the ISO up to about 2600. No problem with the D3, I was shooting 9 fps with no, or little buffer speed problems.
The images have been placed into the workflow list and I will get some editing done over the next few days.
By attending events like these you certainly get the opportunity to shoot some good images, whether they be action shots, or characteristics of the event. Whether I use these images I captured for my module, I have not decided. It is more likely I will go out and shoot a similar event over the next week or so and see if the types of images I want get captured.
As soon as I finish the final images through CS3 I will post a new link here so the gallery can be viewed.
The above image was taken within the first 15 minutes of getting there, these little fellas were amazing and just had to be captured. More images will be published.
